About Us

Krishna is founding partner of Fulcrum. He has been responsible for the investments under the brand since 2000. He turned investor immediately after his graduation heading his family office first and subsequently Fulcrum as a PE manager.Over the last 16 years he has invested into Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Real Estate, Agriculture, and Information Technology.His family office investments (Fund I) have generated a stellar return of 18x of which 7x the capital invested has been returned in cash. Krishna sits on the board of leading companies such as Curatio, Richfeel and Shield amongst many others. He is a member of Chennai Angels and TIE. Krishna holds an MBA from XIMB..

Balakrishnan, Director-India at an Anglo-American PLC, is responsible for the strategy and business development for the group in India. He has over 45 years of experience in the metals and mining industry. He has held leadership positions in Hindustan Motors’ earthmoving equipment division (now CATERPILLERIndia Ltd), Kirloskar Electric Co., and Aditya Birla Group

Balaraman Jayaraman (a k a Bala) has three decades of experience in the high-tech industry. As a Co-Founder and President of Congruent Solutions since 1999, Bala has steered Congruent through diversification and growth, to emerge as one of the pioneers in the retirement technology solutions and KPO services in the US and UK. Congruent’s domain and technology expertise is complemented by its ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifications for excellence in quality, security and maturity of software development and KPO services. A path-breaking initiative at Congruent was the recent launch of CORE Retirement Solutions, a suite of Enterprise Technology Solutions for Pension Providers, in the US and UK and has become one of the few product companies from India to launch an enterprise scale platform in these markets and acquire Tier 1 clients.He became an entrepreneur in 1992, and is now an investor and also serves as a director on the boards of four companies in the IT and ITES space. Bala is also a part of the advisory board of the Indian subsidiary of a US based Fortune 1000 company’s India operations. He is on the Board of Trustees of Relief Foundation, an NGO focused on transforming education to the underprivileged children.He is a Charter Member and a past member of the Governing Council of TiE, Chennai, and an active Rotarian. He was a Director at the Rotary Club of San Francisco West and also served as the President of Rotary Club of Madras East in 2009-10 and the Assistant Governor of R I District 3230 in 2015-16. He is an active member of Regional Council of NASSCOM and the Indo American Chamber of Commerce.Bala received the Pathfinder 2013 award from The Economic Times, recognizing his contribution to the IT & ITES industry, and Congruent Solutions has been recognized as a “Billion Dollar Baby” in TiECON 2014, and as a “Great Tech RocketShip” by UK Trade & Investments in February 2015.Bala has a Master’s from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.